E-Book Sales Overcome Print Books

Amazon has announced that sales of its Kindle e-Books has outstripped sales of all its print books, including hardcover and softcover. During 2010, it announced that e-Book sales had exceeded sales of hardcover books.

IT clearly marks the course of the future. People are getting used to reading on a screen and the convenience of carrying a small device rather than a pile of heavy books is making its mark.

Sales of eBooks will also be spurred on by the sales of tablet computers as well. Although their screens are not as good as those of the e-readers, nevertheless, they tend to be very good, except in direct sunlight, and have the same level of convenience as their e-reader counterparts. In fact they might have some more convenience, since the tablets also include other conventional computer apps as well within the same device and people don't want to be burdened with carrying around a bunch of different devices.

Expect e-Books to remain as the dominant form of books in future and print books to become collectors items. Read more on the announcement here.